San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-18
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

GLADSTONE loses not one jot or little Of
his even-paced, self-centered spirit dur
ing all these troublous debates. He has
taught his enemies In times past the nec-
essity OF moving very cautiously in their
attacks upon him, and they leave him
alone whenever practicable. There is
no doubt that he is stronger today with
the masses Of the English voters than he
has ever been 10 any past Of his political
life, and IL Is not impossible, even now,
that he will be able TO effect mOditica
tion Of the crimes act, which will rob it
Of its most disgraoetul and diabOlical
features.
The alarmists are terribly exercised
lest trouble should arise between Uncle
sam and the railways on account Of in
terstate law. Ii the interstate law finds
the railways In the way OF Uncle's Sans
mail, the railways will have to give
place. Uncle Sam Is as obstinate In the
case OF his mails, as q locomotive is
when there is q paving bovine on the
track. There is little fear at The north
OF U S. not getting there with his let
ter pouch. In that region they under
stand the old gentleman.
SUCH scenes rs were witnessed In the
House OF Commons on last Friday, when
the lie WAS so frequently given and
swallowed, BODIES no peaceful issue to
the coercion debate. The refusal of
SaundersOn to retract his charge, that
the Irish members were the associates
Of known murderers and assassins,
brought down upon him the swift de-
nunciatiOn that he was liar and will
full and malicious one. The attempt OF
the speaker to sustain the English Tory
in his charge while the lrishmen were
ordered to apologize did, not succeed,
and for once on a English parliament
floor the Irish blood manifested itself in
way that can readily be accepted as a
forecast Of the spirit In which the Irish
people themselves will accept the pas
sage OF the crimes act. The end prom
ises anything but peace to Ireland; any
thing but security to England.
The Island city seems to have some
trouble about the maintenance of its
evening journals. At least, some of
them complain that they receive no ad-
vertising patronage commensurate to
their needs, and that 1t is impossible ITO
publish nonpsreil paper in a long
PRIMER town" Perhaps the patrons re-
u
primmer paper In nOnpareil town.
There are usually two sides to such COM
plants.
THOSE whose pens are mite-ier than
their swords are rushing into print with
"Beecher biographies" and the country
will be flooded with trash from these
literary scaVengers In very short time.
Mrs. Beecher, her son, and son-in-law
laIf hxFM
who contemplated such a work himself,
and in time. It patient, the public will
have biography rs authentic and COM
plete as can be afforded. Let the bio
graphical b0res, the pirates of the print
ing press, go without their toll for once,
and learn a useful lesson.
1T seems that Barnum did
not get enough out of
Jumbo" living. and now wants
100000 from the Canada Grand trunk
line for kill ng the brute 10 a railway
smash. The suit is brought under the
law allowing claims for damage done
baggage. JumbO's trunk WAS complete
smashed; hence Barnum's bill.
TIE Texas Alliance ia moving on the
even tenor OF its way, but seems to have
given the cold shoulder to the Fort. Its
state organ is at Dallas, and its big
$4,000 flour mill is going up at the
same metropolis Of north Texas. The
Fort will have to stir itself and blow in
another railway.
The Jewish Exponent is the name of
a Journal recently started at Philadel-
phla. The journal Is distinctively jew
lsh In Its character, and II IL fulfills the
promise OF Its prospectus will be yalu-
able addition to Jewish periodical lit
erature. Ii Is only another evidence of
the growing tendency to specialize and
systematic our knowledge, and so reach
greater accuracy in our literary re-
searches.
The Fort Worth Mail attributes the
defeat OF prohibition In Michigan to the
great influx Of foreign populations. The
Mail Is In error. Michigan has had a
prohioitory law upon her statute books
ior over quarter Of century, and il
mas been, as all such are, a nuisance and
failure; hence this resubmission of the
question and this result.
vienna, Austria, will unyeil her Hay-
den monument on May 81, the seventy
eighth anniversary Of the great com
poser's death. The design has been
nodded by the sculptor Ratter. Four
thousand thalers are still required to be
raised by public SUBSCRIPTION, and the
Vienna Journals are calling for HAYDEN
benefits In the theatres for that puT1ose.
Hamburg raises 1000 marks In that way
and has forwarded it.
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